Well, that's a mouthful: meet Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis, a vegetarian with a 30-foot neck who recently arrived at the Museum of Natural History for their World’s Largest Dinosaurs exhibition (check out our pictures here). She's a real chatty Cathy, tweeting up a storm under the name Giant_Dino, but her full name is too long to tweet, so the Museum's looking for some help giving her a nickname.
Through next Wednesday, the Museum will be accepting suggestions for names on their website, with the plea, "She’s New in Town, and She Needs a Name!" The public can vote online for their favorite ideas, and and the winning name will be announced on June 7th. To help inspire you, here's some background on the Mamenchisaurus: She lived about 160 million years ago in what is now China, clocks in at 60 feet long and 13 tons, and needed to eat about 1,150 lbs of food a day to survive.
Our ideas? Munchies, mamenck, muhmunch, memmy, and...Phil. Got anything better?
